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October 26, 2005
Oh, yeah...
We're going to be in Houston through May. Needless to say a lot of people aren't happy with that. Apparently the cincher was the lack of clinical opportunities for third and fourth year students, which both the deans and the LCME agreed on. Could the first and second year students go back? Maybe, but that would stretch a thin administration even further. Personally, it's not that bad for me. If I'd stayed as a line officer in the Navy I'd be at sea all week every work week during the training cycle anyway, and if I wasn't in the training cycle I'd be on a six month deployment. My parents are helping my wife with the kids, my daughter is in school, my wife has a sense of occupation at her job, my mom could have kept up with her PhD program but was able to defer and wouldn't trade the time with her grandkids for anything. My dad has a full house to go home to, and my kids have lots of loving attention, far more than they probably got in New Orleans. They're not in daycare, which means we're saving on that, and we've been able to make our house in New Orleans available to some folks who lost everything. I've been told my living conditions are below what most of the other students came into, but it's still a lot better than I'll have on a ship (which may still be in my future once I graduate) and it's really close to school, so I can bike, which saves gas.
Posted by Niels Olson at October 26, 2005 7:30 PM
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